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amicicides

amicicides is the plural of amicicide.

Meaning of amicicide

Noun

amicicide (plural amicicides)

  1. killing of a friend
    • Men who have been the firmest friends, while in each other's company periodically and frequently, have clashed and quarrelled in their attempt to dwell beneath the same roof, and, occupying the same apartments, have been moved to commit amicicide.1873, Junius Henri Browne, “Women as Idealists”, in The Galaxy, Volume XVI, page 99

Questions about amicicides

What is amicicides the plural of?
Amicicides is the plural of amicicide.

Words near amicicides in the dictionary

  1. amici
  2. amici curiae
  3. Amici prism
  4. Amici prisms
  5. amicicide
  6. amicicides
  7. amicide
  8. amicite
  9. amicitial
  10. Amick
  11. Amico

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